The 31-year-old is wanted by the Championship side on a month's loan, and with Jamaal Lascelles ahead of Williamson in the pecking order and Paul Dummett able to play centre-back, the Magpies are happy to let the long-serving player out for some game time.

If we fail to qualify for the Finals in Holland and Belgium next summer, England will slip lower down the UEFA pecking order - and miss out on a top seeeding in the qualification for the next World Cup.

Most families in Wales are a mixture of other UK nationalities, so unless we want a caste regime in which there is a pecking order of Welshness let us all look forward to a better future for everyone - instead of trying to reinvent a past that never existed.

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